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A fan of US singer Lady Gaga poses for a portrait in costume as he stands in line for her show at the Jockey Club in Asuncion, Paraguay. The first 500 people in line will get the best seats to see Lady Gaga in concert during her 'The Born This Way Ball' tour. Jorge Saenz/AP

Tibetan students wait in traditional attire to welcome their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama at the Christ University campus where he delivered a lecture on 'Science and Religion' in Bangalore, India. Aijaz Rahi/AP

Marching band members attend the 2012 Hollywood Christmas Parade with lighted up instruments in Los Angeles November 25, 2012. Phil McCarten/Reuters

Farmers stand among hundreds of tractors during a demonstration called '1,000 tractors to Brussels' by European milk producers in central Brussels. Thousands of dairy farmers from all over Europe took part in the demonstration to urge politicians to take efficient legislative measures for the milk market and to listen to farmers' demands for cost-covering prices and fair remuneration, according to the organisers. Yves Herman/Reuters

Protesters with their faces covered are pictured during the clashes with riot police at Tahrir square in Cairo. Protesters are back in Tahrir Square and the new president is in the firing line, but the military that until earlier this year was at the center of Egypt's turbulent politics is staying out -- and is likely to keep it that way. Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters

A vendor sells Christmas stars on the first day of the Christmas Market near the city hall in Berlin. Markus Schreiber/AP

A sign points into flood waters from the River Soar in Barrow Upon Soar, central England. Darren Staples/Reuters

Indian policemen keep their weapons as they pay tribute at the memorial to the victims of the Mumbai terror attacks on its fourth anniversary in Mumbai, India. India secretly executed the lone surviving gunman Mohammed Ajmal Kasab on Nov. 21, from the 2008 Mumbai terror attack, four years after Pakistani gunmen blazed through India's financial capital, killing 166 people and shattering relations between the nuclear-armed neighbors. Rafiq Maqbool/AP

Demonstrators gather on a road as evacuation operations continue on land that will become the new airport in Notre-Dame-des-Landes, western France. The new airport, some 30kms (19 miles) from Nantes, is scheduled to be constructed for 2017. Stephane Mahe/Reuters

A couple shares a kiss during a concert at the Leopoldina train station in downtown Rio de Janeiro November 25, 2012. The century-old station decorated with graffiti now serves as a venue hosting music and artistic performances after its closure in 2004. Pilar Olivares/Reuters

A Palestinian schoolgirl is seen through a hole in a blackboard days after an Israeli strike hit a school in Gaza City. Israel launched its offensive on Nov. 14 in a bid to halt months of Palestinian rocket attacks. It says it inflicted heavy damage on Gaza militants, but the territory's armed groups fired hundreds of rockets into Israel before a cease-fire was declared Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012. Adel Hana/AP

A bus passes the Bank of England in the city of London. Britain named Canadian central bank chief Mark Carney as the next governor of the Bank of England, springing the surprise choice of a foreigner to help steer the world's sixth-largest economy out of stagnation. Olivia Harris/Reuters

Customers select a plaited string of onions at a stall at the annual 'Zibelemaerit' in Bern, Switzerland, November 12, 2012. The 'Zibelemaerit' (onion market) is a traditional one-day festival which is held on the fourth Monday in November. Ruben Sprich/Reuters

Bahraini anti-government protesters shout at riot police, not pictured, as they fire tear gas in Manama, Bahrain. Riot police in Bahrain have fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse thousands of marchers trying to reach a heavily guarded square that was once the hub of their anti-government uprising. Hasan Jamali/AP

A vendor selling corn and other types of grains waits for customers at the premises of Boudhanath Stupa, one of the holiest Buddhist sites in Kathmandu. Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters

Ethnic Miao people take pictures during a rehearsal of the celebration ceremony for the Miao's new year's day and the Guzang Festival in Leishan county, southeast Guizhou province, November 24, 2012. More than 1,000 ethnic Miao families live in Xijiang village of Leishan, now the biggest settlement of ethnic Miao minority in China. Sheng Li/Reuters

A boy watches clashes between protesters and riot police at Tahrir square in Cairo. Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters

72-year-old Liu Qianping, also known as 'MaDiGaGa,' poses for a modelling shoot in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou November 24, 2012. Liu was visiting his 24-year-old granddaughter, Lu Ting in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou one day when the women's clothes Lu was packing into boxes caught his eye. His visit came as the model that his granddaughter and four friends had booked for a photo shoot to promote their online fashion business suddenly cancelled, so, Liu, a 72-year-old former farmer visiting to escape the chilly winter of central Hunan province, stepped in to help. Tyrone Siu/Reuters

A monkey licks a block of ice with fruits encased in it during the annual Monkey Buffet Festival, in front of the Pra Prang Sam Yot temple in Lopburi province, 150km (94 miles) north of Bangkok, November 25, 2012. Chaiwat Subprasom/Reuters

Calgary Stampeders Demonte Bolden stands on the sidelines after suffering an injury after losing his helmet on a play against the Toronto Argonauts during the first half during the 100th CFL Grey Cup championship football game in Toronto, November 25, 2012. Christinne Muschi/Reuters

A street accordion player and a portrait painter are seen in the tourist Plaka district of central Athens. The ministers of the 17 countries that use the euro are meeting in Brussels later Monday to try to reach an agreement on disbursement of Greece's next rescue loan installment, after several delays. Athens faces bankruptcy without the cash. Thanassis Stavrakis/AP

An indigenous man protests before the visit of FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke at Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro. An Indian community that lives in the unused Museum of Indians, next to the Maracana stadium, is fighting against the destruction of the Museum for the renovation and construction work for the World Cup. Ricardo Moraes/Reuters

A chair is seen lying in the sand on the beach as a silhouette of a man walks in Atlantic Beach, New York. Insurer Swiss Re said on Monday it estimated its claims burden from hurricane Sandy, which hit the United States last month, at $900 million. Shannon Stapleton/Reuters

Fog engulfs the eastern span of the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge, which is under construction seen from Clipper Cove on Treasure Island in San Francisco. A heavy fog has allowed only 27 planes per hour to enter or leave San Francisco International airport, with delays of up to two hours. Ben Margot/AP

A man reads a newspaper featuring the results of the Catalan elections on its front, with a headline in Catalan reading 'Hard punishment to Mas,' in Barcelona, Spain. A day after voters in Spain’s economically powerful region of Catalonia dealt a punishing blow to the ruling party advocating independence from Spain, the pressure was on the party leader and regional president Artur Mas to form a new government that would carry out his promise. Emilio Morenatti/AP

A man paddles his kayak by the fountain that looks like a geyser during sunset at the Ada Ciganlija Lake in Belgrade, Serbia. Weather forecast predicts good autumnal weather conditions in Serbia for the upcoming days. Darko Vojinovic/AP

A child flies a kite made by kite-maker Nicolas Saynes at La Mina neighbourhood in Cuernavaca November 25, 2012. Saynes has been making kites for 30 years and in the last three months of the year sold about 500 kites for 5 pesos (40 cents) each in the streets of his barrio. Margarito Perez/Reuters

On Friday, Russia's sports ministry denied accusations of state-sponsored doping that implicate more than 1,000 athletes across more than 30 sports in sample swapping, tampering with samples, and taking steroid cocktails designed to evade Olympic testing.